PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT (PPSL)

The lack of vision to build a better tomorrow.

The company project in five lines
A nation to be built with a feeling of belonging and of common life among all citizens.

A country to be built with a restored environment, healthy institutions and adequate infrastructure in the most remote corners of the nation.

A Haiti that first takes care of the neglected, in particular those of the rural world, urban ghettos and the female world.

A proud and prosperous Haiti that claims its tradition of leadership and service in the Caribbean and around the world.

A Haiti which reintegrates democracy while respecting the political transition as an obligatory and normal passage in national life.

Civic process :
The government and civil society will have to work together to infuse the feeling of belonging to the same country in all social strata so that all citizens feel they are heirs to the national heritage.

Government and civil society should strive to create healthy institutions and infrastructure that are accessible to the most remote rural section, so that Haitians feel at home wherever they are in the country.

The government and the civil society will have to establish a feeling of solidarity towards the abandoned especially those who live in the rural world and in urban ghettos, as well as women.

Government and civil society must practice generosity towards the peoples of the earth torn apart by internal struggles or victims of neo-colonialism.

Finally, the government, at the end of its mandate, must diligently cede power without compromising either the human resources or the natural resources of the nation. Thus, he will teach the youth that the fatherland is a work in progress and that it will have to tackle the task mentioned above, requested by Jean-Jacques Dessalines.

Our environmental policy
Will use our debt to Pétro Caribe to negotiate a “debt swapping for nature” program or debt swap for environmental projects. With an annual envelope of $ 200 million received to pay off the debt. We will enter the corresponding value in national currency to reforest our mountains with precious woods like cedar and mahogany, thus creating a permanent Sovereign Fund that will make Haiti immensely rich when this forest reaches its peak in fifteen years. Charcoal will be produced only by the state, which will simultaneously ensure the continuous management of forests planted for this purpose.

January 2, May 1, May 18 and November 18 will be transformed into days of reflection and voluntarism aimed at redressing the physical environment and strengthening ties social relations between the sons and daughters of Haiti. Also, we have proposed a budget of US $ 850 million for all these initiatives. This budget will come out of a national and fair taxation of Haitians living in Haiti and on a tax international for members of DIASPORA who retain Haitian citizenship. The latter will receive a credit and an exemption on the tax paid, this exemption will be negotiated by the Haitian government with the host countries. This amount paid to Haiti will not be collected twice from the taxpayer. He will also benefit from social and medical security in Haiti in his old age.

Environmental planning.
Thank God ! We have Pétro Caribe as a financial backer, because our international debt of 3.7 billion dollars towards this financial structure can be exchanged for environmental projects within the framework of the program called “debt swapping for nature”. We will seek to collect countries and pro-environmental institutions $ 200 million to pay off the debt annually. In return, this amount will be converted and used in national currency provided by the Central Bank. Thus we will be enriched by 200 million dollars each year, an amount that we did not have not before, for the planting and protection of precious trees like cedar, mahogany, oak wood, ebony which we can import from our brethren from Africa and the Francis mango, as well as the "Bayeron" to produce the cooking charcoal.

This project will not only help alleviate the suffering and misery in Haiti in the next 15 to 20 years when these rainforests reach maturity, but will provide a Fund Ruler of several billion dollars while helping to cool the hemispherical atmosphere in the Caribbean.

In addition, the Haitian state will be the only entity to produce charcoal for cooking purposes, while managing trees and plantations for this purpose. He will sell the charcoal to wholesalers following the same formula as that used for the sale of gasoline at service stations. The charcoal will be sold retail and at a reduced price (300 gourdes per bag).

Environmental planning will become a source of security, protection and wealth for the Haitian state. Each Haitian household will be trained in the production of seedlings with natural fertilizer from household waste. It could also lead to family gas production fuel through technology transfer provided by the Ministry of the Environment.

This debt-for-environment swap project in no way absolves the Petro Caribe Fund squanderers. Haitian justice will have to take its course to seek and punish the culprits with compensation to the Haitian people.